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Kuro5hin is Dead

posted by takyon on Tuesday May 03 2016, @09:00AM   
from the 死ぬ dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Folks, it appears Kuro5hin is dead:

The site was founded by Rusty Foster in December 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot.[10] Kuro5hin's membership once numbered in the tens of thousands,[11] but its popularity declined significantly from its peak in the early 2000s.[13] On May 1st, 2016, the site was closed down permanently.

I didn't visit it. It seemed then like the bunker where the tinfoil hat brigade hung out. In the Slashdot days it served as the guardrail for conventional wisdom. But now that the tinfoil hat brigade has been entirely vindicated, and Kuro5hin is dead, it makes me a little sad. What are your favorite memories of Kuro5hin, and will we see its like again?

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Original Submission

• From the 死ぬ dept. From the 死ぬ dept. (Score: 3, Informative) by DarkMorph on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:57PM

  by DarkMorph (674) on Tuesday May 03 2016, @03:57PM (#340898)

  For those curious about the department title, 死ぬ is the Japanese verb for "to die". I can't comment on Kuro5hin as I've never visited that site before. Guess I missed my chance to do so now...

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• Re:From the 死ぬ dept. (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @02:13AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 04 2016, @02:13AM (#341179)

  So is it now Kuroshinu? Some ways of writing the kanji would be 黒死, "black death" or 黒心 "black heart"...

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